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RAYMOND J. LUSTIG
COMPOSER
200 Cabrini Boulevard #51
New York, NY 10033
917-903-9097
[email protected]
www.raymondlustig.com
Composer Raymond J. Lustig’s ever-evolving work ranges from symphonic, to chamber,
technological, multimedia, and, most lately, theatrical. Commissions, performances, and
support have come from Grand Rapids Symphony, American Composers Orchestra,
American Opera Projects, Town Hall Seattle, The Academy (A Program of Carnegie Hall,
The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute), Metropolis Ensemble, TENET Vocal
Ensemble, Copland House, the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington, tenor Nicholas Phan,
cellist Joshua Roman's Town Music, Duo Noire, Flutronix, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,
New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Ballet's Choreographic Institute,
American Music Center's Live Music for Dance Project, Da Capo Chamber Players, Avian
Music, Orchestra Insonica, the Juilliard Orchestra, the New Juilliard Ensemble, Bowling
Green Philharmonia, Blind Ear, Opera Grows in Brooklyn, Opera on Tap,
counter)induction, the Norfolk Festival, the St. Louis Guitar Festival, New York Festival of
Song, the Caramoor Music Festival, the Juilliard Beyond the Machine Festival, the
European American Musical Alliance in Paris, and numerous colleges and universities
worldwide. He has served as Composer in Residence with the Chamber Music Festival of
Lexington, the Imagine Science Film Festival, and Copland House’s Compose Yourself
project. Lustig’s awards include the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters, ASCAP’s Rudolf Nissim Prize for his orchestral work UNSTUCK, and the
Aaron Copland Award from Copland House. His teachers have included John Corigliano,
Robert Beaser, Samuel Adler, Sebastian Currier, Jonathan Kramer, Derek Bermel, Philip
Lasser, Pia Gilbert, Conrad Cummings, and Shirish Korde.
Born in Tokyo and raised in Queens, New York, Lustig received his B.A. from Holy Cross
College, where he pursued his interests in music and the sciences. Before coming to
Juilliard to complete his MM and DMA degrees in composition, Lustig was a published
researcher in molecular biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Columbia
University. As a composer, he remains deeply inspired by science, nature, and the mind.
An active blogger-in-music, Lustig’s regular micro-composition series #composagrams has
spawned a novel genre and pioneered use of social media feeds as a new 21 st-century
“concert hall”—an artistic space with its own creative benefits and boundaries. He was
invited by TEDx to speak about his habit of looking to the constraints for his new
inspirations.
To learn more, please visit: www.raymondlustig.com, or follow me on social media:
https://www.facebook.com/raymondlustig/
https://www.instagram.com/raylustig/
https://twitter.com/rayminor
https://www.youtube.com/user/Archipelagance
https://soundcloud.com/ray-lustig